Show M 10 By VIRGINIA VALE Released by Western Newspaper Union ONE of the airs air's best pro pro- programs grams Shipmates Ashore may soon be broad broad- broadcast broadcast cast nationally its it's a variety show done by British Broad Broad- Broadcasting Broadcasting casting company with an American star and an English one broadcasting from New York and two of the same from London It goes to fighting men on the seven seas and its it's thrilling ng Gertrude Lawrence went down to New Yorks York's Seamen's Church Institute on a bit bit- bitter bitter ter Saturday morning recently to sing and to chat with Burgess Mere Mere- I o y s GERTRUDE LAWRENCE in London said he Tell Paul Paul- Paulette ette I got her Christmas pres present nt Tried out on a local New York station the programs program's been a great success and an important part of the the sea movement Andrew Stone has cooked up something special for his Sensa Sensations of 1944 Eleanor Powell W. W C Fields lIes lIe's concluded arrange arrange- arrangements ments with the state of Colorado to have bave a man walk a wire tight across the Royal Gorge First oft off he want want- wanted ed to stage the act over Niagara Falls but authorities on both the U. U S and Canadian sides of the falls have bave so far refused to play b Marking the most important Pan American alliance in the motion pic pic- picture ture industry in recent years United Artists has arranged to distribute in nIl all Latin American countries and in Spain the product of a new Mexican production company Aso Aso- S. S A. A When NBC was informed that Parks Johnson and Warren Hull of Vox Pop would be armchair de- de detectives detectives on an Ellery Queen Broad Broad- Broadcast cast an NBC executive asked Who is Parks Johnson Isn't he in ra- ra radio radio dio Vox Pop was a popular NBC show for nearly five years be- be before before fore it switched to CBS Incidental Incidental- Incidentally ly those two Vox Poppers should be decorated for the swell job they're doing these days Did you hear little Dickie Mono Mono- ban when he covered himself with glory on the CBS Big ig Town pro pro- program gram playing a little blind boy whose hose gang gang- gangsters dog was run over by A Warner Varner Bros scout did and promptly arranged to interview object Dickie-object a screen test To John Charles Thomas falls the distinction of occupying Radio City's famed Studio better known as the studio now that he heis heis is broadcasting his Sunday NBC program from New York for seven weeks while making 21 Met Opera appearances I Barbara Hale former Chicago model who came to film prominence I when she was picked to play opposite I Frank Sinatra in Higher and High High- Higher er has been given another good role by the second feminine lead in the Pat OBrien O'Brien Marine Raiders Jimmy Cash singing star of the Burns and Allen CBS program will make his picture debut in the Uni Uni- Universal versal film tentatively titled Cross Your Fingers He gets a break an original number IIA A Dream Ago been written for him 4 Time was when no Hollywood actress would admit that she ever lifted a finger around the house now they pitch in and are proud of it Dorothy Lamour and her mother did their own washing for five months a awhile awhile while ago Jean Arthur Joan Craw Craw- Crawford ford Ann Sheridan Betty Grable- Grable you can go right down the list and find the girls proud of being able to cook garden do practically any chore and take pride in it Claudette butler once was one of her prides now she buttles and very well tool ODDS AND ENDS heretofore confined to the screen The es oJ of Charlie Chan Chon I will ill shortly take to the airwaves Ruth nuth daughter daught oJ of quizmaster TOni helps write the scripts Jar for JarIt forIt It laya to Dc Ignorant the comedy quiz show now heard on tIe the CDS CBS Kate Smith flour In years to come the Battle Daule oJ of Stalingrad will be studied in military academies through the medium oJ of a docu docu- film edited by now being shown in theaters as The City That Stopped Stol h Stalingrad Marx Mars is a new uncle his brother has adopted another child named it lot for Ale Alexander der W o. o |